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You’d think nothing had been happening round here.
But everything has been happening.
Firstly, we had to finish off classes for the year. We were so tired out, it was a relief, and yet it’s a poo to interrupt the learnz. But knowing when to rest is important.
Secondly, we had MLX. The [...]
Learnz!
By dogpossum On 12th October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, speakeasy
Little Big Weekend with Ramona, originally uploaded by dogpossum.
I’m putting together The Little Big Weekend with Ramona for the 1st/2nd of December here in Sydney. We’ll be hosting the lovely and badass Ramona Staffeld, who’ll be teaching a day of workshops on the Saturday.
This weekend looks like fun.
First:
Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts are doing their first explicitly-for-dancers gig at the Performance ball on Saturday. SQUEE (linky)
Second:
The Speakeasy is on again after the ball, and that will be FUNTIMES as they are doing the usual excellence, but also including [...]
January round up
By dogpossum On 11th January, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In academia, c25k, djing, fitness, ideas, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, people i know, running, speakeasy, swimming, wimminz
(photo of Mary Lou Williams, extremely awesome woman pianist, who fucking PWND the fairly dick-centred boogiewoogie piano world, from here. She was all about OWNING the discourse.)
I’m back running, desperate to get some serious exercise during the christmas dancing drought. So far it’s going well, except today I did run [...]
Moonstruck
By dogpossum On 11th December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, fillums, lindy hop and other dances, music, speakeasy
Last night there was a lunar eclipse, and I was up at midnight to see it. It was an amazing thing, but now I am feeling the late night in my bones.
I’m ‘preparing’ for another Speakeasy (10:30pm next Friday night, Crossover studio, 22 Golburn St, Sydney), when I should really be lying on [...]
Speakeasy Superbad
By dogpossum On 23rd May, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In 8 tracks, lindy hop and other dances, music, speakeasy
Here’s the setlist I did at the Speakeasy on Saturday 21st May and talked about in Everything I did was funky: Cell Block Swing & Speakeasy.
The photo Tina Turner was taken by Barry Wentzell at the Odeon in 1971. I found it in multiple places online. You can buy prints, [...]
Everything I did was funky: Cell Block Swing & Speakeasy
By dogpossum On 22nd May, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, gastropod, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, music, speakeasy
This is going to be a crazy, incoherent post about how much fun I had last night.
First, there was a dance at the old Jail in Darlinghurst, in the National Art School‘s Jail House Theatre. Amazing venue. Amazing:
Secondly, the band were the Ozcats, who are a Bob Crosby tribute band, [...]
speakeasy superfun
By dogpossum On 24th January, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In 8 tracks, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, speakeasy
(Direct link to the 8tracks playlist)
A set list from a gig I did at the Speakeasy on Saturday night (22/1/11, 11pm – 2am or so; I DJed 12-1am or so). I haven’t done this in a while, but I was so inspired by the gig itself, and my previously-shitting-me DJing so [...]
Speakeasy
By dogpossum On 24th April, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, speakeasy
A few Sydney dancers have recently been running some late night speakeasy events after churchpit on Fridays, and they’ve been very successful. The venue is small and has pleasing acoustics – the square ‘end’ of a long, L-shaped room contains the sound (especially when the speaker is positioned on the long wall, playing into the [...]
